L' Enfance Nue [Criterion Collection]

Director: Maurice Pialat Maurice Pialat

Overview

A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is sent to another home where he is cared for by an elderly couple. The boy takes to the woman, a kindly grandmother who reaches out to the disturbed boy. His deliberate disobedience lessens somewhat in his new environment, but he is arrested after throwing bolts at cars from a bridge. The boy tries to overcome his mother's rejection and struggles to boost his self image in this childhood drama.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/17/2010
UPC:	0715515061612
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:23:00
Sales rank:	24,239

Special Features

New, restored high-defintion digital transfer; L'amour Existe, director Maurice Pialat's poetic 1960 short film about life on the outskirts of Paris; Autour De "L'enfance Nue" a fifty-minute documentary shoft just after the film's release; Excerpts from a 1973 French television interview with Pialat; New visual essay by critic Kent Jones on the film and Pialat's cinematic style; Video interview with Pialat collaborators Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michel Tarrazon	François
Linda Guttenberg	Simone Joigny
Raoul Billerey	Robert Joigny
Marie-Louise Thierry	Mme. Minguet
Rene Thierry	M. Minguet
Marie Marc	Mémé
Pierrette Delplanque	Josette
Henri Puff	Raoul
Claire Thierry	Aunt Claire
Maurice Coussonneau	M. Latillon

Technical Credits

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- L'Enfance Nue
1. Family Outing [3:45]
2. François At Home [3:40]
3. A Visit From the Director [5:23]
4. Last Night [3:13]
5. Leaving [4:32]
6. The Children [2:52]
7. A Home for Vincent [3:34]
8. Mr. and Mrs. Thierry [4:08]
9. First Night [4:26]
10. New At School [2:31]
11. Not Normal [3:05]
12. Grandma and Grandpa [5:09]
13. Close Call [1:49]
14. At the Movies [3:14]
15. Family Gathering [2:58]
16. Morning Papers [3:00]
17. Down the Drain [2:11]
18. Nana's Purse [4:46]
19. Wedding [3:42]
20. A Death [3:39]
21. Sick [1:43]
22. Crime and Punishment [5:38]
23. Uncertain Future [4:00]
1. Color Bars [:00]
1. A Very Rich Subject [5:31]
2. The Actors [9:00]
3. The Director [4:19]
4. Not Like the Others [9:19]
5. Didier [10:24]
6. Support Group [13:53]

Menu

Disc #1 -- L'Enfance Nue
   Play the Movie
   Chapters
   Supplements
      Autour De "L'Enfance Nue"
         Play
         Index
      L'Amour Existe
         Play
      Kent Jones
         Play
      Maurice Pialat
         Play
      Arlette Langmann and Patrick Grandperret
         Play
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